Other guests are cosplay band Eien Strife, professional panelists Vitamin H Productions, The Carolina Manga Library, Japanese arcade machines from Tokyo Attack, foam weapon combat group Sleeping Samurai, game show host Greg Wicker, and pachinko machines from Pachinko Fever.

They will have all the standard anime con events: panels for learn and/or fun, cosplay contests, rave, artist alley, vendor room with a kinds of goods, cosplayers, autographs, game shows, masquerade ball, concerts, viewing rooms, guests Q&A, AMV League, maid café, and plenty of chances to meet fellow fans. There will also be areas, tournaments, meet-ups, and more for video gaming, pachinko machines, mobile video and phone gaming, collectible card gaming, Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Warhammer and other war miniature games, and a board game library from the Huntington Unplugged Gaming Society.

Convention Registration is $45 for a weekend badge, $30 for Friday only, $40 Saturday only, and $20 for Sunday only. Children between 8-12 badges are $20 for the weekend. Children under seven get in free. They also have a gaming wristband that only that only allows you into the gaming area of the con for $35 for the weekend. Single day gaming wristbands available too.

The con is great for fans of anime, cosplay, table-top and video gaming, and a bit of general nerdery. It is I think the most varied and diverse cons in the state. Though sometime loud, crowded, and full of young people having fun. I am not a big fan of “fun.”

Events for the con include Cartoon Theme Song Sing-A-Long Bingo, an anime theater, kids costume contest on Saturday and an adult one on Sunday, food vendors, Outer Rim Praxeum Lightsaber School demos, Paint Me Pokémon, and panels. Let’s Play All The Games are running retro video game tournaments on Saturday. Tournaments are Tecmo Super bowl, Tekken 3, and WWE Day of Reckoning 2, all are $5 to enter. Cartridges Galore are running tournaments of Smash Brothers Melee and Goldeneye on Sunday with a $10 entry fee. Pop-up tournaments are possible throughout the weekend plus open gaming areas for all. For tabletop gaming there will be Pathfinder Society of WV, games of Munchkin, and Magic: The Gathering tournaments.

CharCon returns this year earlier than in the past. Leaving its date in October it this Friday July 21st to Sunday July 23rd. It has also moved from the Civic Center to the Clay Center in Charleston. Still the same old CharCon though.

This year’s games will include miniatures games of Aerodrome, Kings of War tournament, Tech Commander, Battletech, Warmachine/Hordes, Sailpower; a series of social deduction games like Werewolf and Resistant; board games Agricola, Pandemic Survival, Mystic Vale tournament, live action Red Dragon Inn, a Catan National Qualifier, a bunch of Play to Win games, and more; a series of Family Games on Sunday; RPGs from Pathfinder Society, SPARKS, Star Trek Adventures, Dungeon Dragons Adventures, Call of Cthulhu, Ponyfinder, and Metal, Magic, and Lore.

Non gaming events scheduled are a Quick Draw with JR Earls, a Sci-Fi Sing Along, the Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, a murder mystery game, a game show, Junior Ghostbuster Training, panels, attendee swap meet on Sunday, a Paint and Take, and the CharCon Raffle. The con is trying to do a lot with cosplay this year as well. Besides their Cosplay Contests for adults on Saturday and kids on Sunday, they will be filming a cosplay video, holding photo shoots, a cosplay panel by Bunny Bombshell, a mermaid swim, the Mandolorian Mercs and Ghostbusters will be set up, and their only announced guest is cosplayer John Clark from Galaxy Productions.

Charcon After Dark will be going are at near by bars both Friday and Saturday night.

There will be reps from Portal Games, Mr. B Games. Vendors and exhibitors at the con will be selling all kinds of board, card, collectible, miniature games and gaming accessories, plus comics, art, dice, t-shirts, and more.

Admission for the weekend is $40, $30 for Friday or Sunday, and $25 for Saturday only passes. Children twelve and under can get in for $20 for the weekend or $10 for a single day. Non-gaming passes are available for $10 per day.

The con has a nice line up of gaming for all. I say any gamers out there can find something to do. There is also plenty for cosplayers.

Friday night will include open gaming and two SPARKS sessions. The rest of the weekend will filled with role-playing sessions of SPARKS (Star Wars RPGs), Pathfinder Society, Confluence META RPG, Ponyfinder, Star Trek Adventures, Metal Magic and Lore, and 7th Sea. Plus a board game library, open play area, play to win games from Double Exposure, and Aerodrome on Saturday.

They will have panels from the guests, Artemis Space Bridge Simulator, a Causal Cosplay Ball with bit tune musician SoftServo, the CharCon Green Screen, Causeplayers, Braxxie the Flatwoods Monster, a paint & take, mermaid swim, various artists and vendors, replicas of Lightning and Mater from Pixar’s Cars, and the usual raffle for great prizes.

The 5th 1d4Con is Friday May 5th starting at noon through Sunday May 7th till 6pm at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg. 1d4con is a gaming convention started by 1d4cast.

They have a wide range of gaming at the convention. Schedules boards game sessions for Doctor Who: Game of Time & Space, Firefly: The Board Game, and Car Wars Classic, Lords of Waterdeep, Ogre 6th Edition, among others, and tournaments of FRAG Gold Edition and Munchkin. LARPS of Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalyspe both for Minds Eye Theatre. Miniature games of Frostgrave, demos of Malifaux, and WarMachine/Hordes tournament and free play. Roleplaying game sessions for Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer’s League, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Dungeon World, Pathfinder Society, Shadowrun, Savage Worlds, Quiet Year, and several more. Plus there is a board game library and two Artemis Bridge Simulators. It seems there will also be movies shown, but I can not find hard info on it.

The charity for this year is The International Rescue Committee (IRC) you can give through the Games of Charity program and as part of their raffle. The Games of Charity allow you buy special tickets for certain games which can be used for special boons like re-rolls or bonuses to dice rolls. The raffle runs through Saturday night. Games of Charity tickets are $1 each; the raffle tickets are $3 each.

The gaming convention CharCon returns this Friday October 14th at noon to Sunday October 16th at 7pm at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston. The theme for this year is Fairy Tales.

Gaming for this include the Premier Board Game Tournament (with five new games to try), board game library from Appalachian Gamers, open gaming space, Aerodrome, Pathfinder Society, SPARKS (Star Wars), Confluence Meta RPG (FATE), Magic The Gathering tournaments, several social deduction games, Sailpower, Tech Commander, Settler’s of Catan US Championship Qualifier, Pure Steam RPG, Appalachian Cup (Warmachine), X-Wing tournament, Family Gaming on Sunday, demos and tutorials from 5th Epoch Publishing, State Championships finals for Diamonds, Nevermore, Letter Tycoon, Game of 49, Skull Kings, and Dimension, Double Exposure Envoy program with 50+ play to win games, many more other board games, war games, RPGs, and more.

For video gaming they have retro and fighting video games open play, Street Fighter V tournament, Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, and challenge the members of the band Black Hole Zion in Street Fighter for the band’s swag.

Besides gaming the con will have panels from the 501st, on miniature modeling, and board game design, a Flea Market and Costume Contest on Saturday, a Kid’s Costume Contest on Sunday, a photo booth set-up, a kid’s area run by the Causeplayers group, and appearances from the WV Ghostbusters and their 30ft Say-Puff and Ecto-1.

The con will also have two CharCon after Dark events. Friday a the Blue Parrot with four rock bands, $5 cover charge $3 with CharCon badge. Saturday at the Monkey Barrel for games, prizes, music, drinks.

Tsubasacon is back for another year this Friday September 30th to Sunday October 2nd at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena and Convention Center in Huntington.

Voice actor guests for this are Steve Blum well know for his work in Cowboy Beebop, Big O, Naruto, Digimon, and many other animes, he also has the Guinness Book of World Record for most voice roles in video games, plus he voiced many incarnations of Wolverine, Amon in Legend of Korra, TOM the host of Toonami, hundreds of other roles and Caitlynn French known for such roles as Shiro from No Game No Life, Miyu Edelfelt Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Lllya, Matsurika from Maria-Holic, and several others from Sentai Filmworks.

This year they have two music acts nerdcore artist and cosplayer Shadow Clone and nerd pop band the Night Sabers. Other guests are Pachinko Fever who will be bringing a selection of pachinko machines to play, boffer combat troupe Sleeping Samurai, Tokyo Attack who bring a collection of Japanese arcade machines, panelist group Vitamin H, the Carolina Manga Library, and convention game show host Greggo.

Events include game shows by Greggo, two video rooms, formal masquerade ball on Friday night, AMV contest Saturday morning, guest Q&A and autographs, a dance party on Saturday night, two Cosplay Lip Sync contests (one all ages and one 18+), In-Character Contest, an Iron Cosplay Contest on Sunday, and the big cosplay contest on Saturday. Fan panels on such topics as Fire Emblem, crossplay, Japanese language, several on cosplaying and cosplay culture, Final Fantasy, chainmaile workshop, traveling to Japan, Japanese Culture, Kpop and Jpop, RWBY, and plenty more to check out.

The video gaming section on the con will have a room-scale virtual reality set-up, free play consoles from Rare Drops, tournaments of Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, J Stars Victory, Halo, Pokken, and more through out the weekend and a mobile gaming area. Hobby gaming will have tournaments provided by Dungeon Dwellers with several tournaments for Magic, Force of Will, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dice Masters, and Heroclix; plus on a Guild Ball tournament on Saturday and on Sunday a Warmachine and Hordes tournament; the Pathfinder Society will be running scenarios throughout all three days, and a game library from Huntington Unplugged Gaming Society.

In the vendor/artist alley you will be able to find t-shirts, DVDs, manga, cosplay items, figurines, keychains, plushies, wigs, plenty of other accessories and collectibles, jewelry, weapons, Japanese snacks, games, CDs, art prints, comics, steampunk wear, nerdy crafts, and so much more.

It is $45 for the weekend, $30 for just Friday, $20 for just Sunday, and $40 for a Saturday/Sunday badge. Wristbands that will only get you into the video and table-top gaming sections will be $35 for the weekend, $20 for Friday, $25 for Saturday, and $15 for Sunday. Children, between ages 7-12, badges are $20 for the weekend and $10 for Sunday both with the purchase of an adult’s. Children under seven are free.

Fans of cosplay, anime, gaming, internet culture, and the like should all be able to find something to interest them at this con.